Society and Social Sciences

Description About the Authors China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, a...

Description About the Editor This book aims to study China's economic statecraft in the contemporary era in a comprehensive manner. It attempts...

Description About the Author Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all...

Description About the Author International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down. It looks at world affairs with notable detac...

Description 2016 International Conference on Humanity and Social Science (ICHSS2016) was successfully held in Xiamen, China, on April 22nd – 24...

Description About the Editor This book, with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Islamic Ethics: Sources, Methodology and Application (382 KB)  Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variet...

Description About the Editor Contrary to prior expectations, Narendra Modi has expended a significant amount of time, energy and political capi...

Description New conventional wisdom posits that the public in democracies is inattentive but not really ignorant nor easily swayed, and indeed ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Outline of the Physics (512 KB) The role of physics in our culture is examined from the time of Newton ...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description About the Author Placing the modernization of China in a historical context, Social Construction in Contemporary China provides a p...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Description About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...

Description About the Author China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and...

Description About the Author Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book ...

Description The "Belt and Road" initiative announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 aims at reviving the ancient trade routes connecti...

Description About the Author By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public healt...

Description Thinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? ...

Description Since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China had been enjoying a rapid growth in foreign trade, which in turn, ...

Description About the Authors Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963. It was then seen as an unli...

Description The history of the People's Republic of China can be classified into two distinctive periods: Mao's China (1949–1978) and Deng's Ch...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asia Competitiveness Institute, updated annually to analyse Indonesia's ...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asian Competitiveness Institute (ACI), updated annually to analyse Indon...

Description About the Authors There have been broad-based growth in wealth for cities all over the world, albeit increasingly unequal within an...

Description About the Editors 50 Years of Singapore-Europe Relations: Celebrating Singapore's Connections with Europe is one contribution to th...

Description About the Authors This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) presents the inaugural regional competitiveness analysis fo...

Description About the Authors After more than three decades of rapid growth, China is now entering into the New Normal Era, which will be chara...

Description This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, deve...

Description About the Authors With the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in December 2015, ASEAN is at a crossroads once again. Having bra...

Description Since actuarial education was introduced into China in the 1980s, Chinese scholars have paid greater attention to the theoretical r...

Description Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, al...

Description About the Editor In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Enviro...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description About the Editor This unique work is the first to address the subject of community engagement strategies in countering extremism, a...

Description About the Author Cyberterrorism in the 21st century is now one of the greatest threats to global security and information. It trans...

Description This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asian...

Description Based on seven years of original research, this book contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive assessments of 'home-grown...

Description The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's forma...

Description About the Editors Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse. During the first few decades of nation building, policies wer...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

Description About the Authors The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthro...

Description About the Editors Singapore experienced substantial changes during the 14-year tenure of the country's second Prime Minister, Goh C...

Description About the Author More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a compre...

Description About the Author In Trump's Populist America, author Steven Rosefielde argues that the policies Trump fashions are not half measure...

Description Tourism development is not merely about boosting tourist figures and bringing in more tourist dollars. Undoubtedly, it has to do wi...

Description About the Authors This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 1945–1990, it covers the post-w...